Thursday, January 14, 2010

The January 2010 DC challenge was hosted by Cuppy of Cuppyliciousand she chose a delicious Thai-inspired recipe for Pork Satay from the book 1000 Recipes by Martha Day. Being vegetarian I adapted it for a paneer-satay which I served as appetiser and some tofu-satay which got brown bagged into a sammich! Yumm ..

Satay (or sate) is very often served as “street fare” all over the world, and you dip your cool little meat/veggie skewer into any variety of dipping sauces

The required part of this challenge is to marinate to add awesome flavor to the paneer/tofu . I made the marinade from scratch as follows:

Chop the onions, garlic and ginger really fine then mix it all together in a medium to large bowl.

Make about 1 inch strips of the paneer and tofu and marinate for 2-4 hours turning it around occasionally . I grilled them in my panini press and they turned out to be quite scrumptious ! I cannot believe I forgot the sauces/dips but in my defense the satay were amazing by themselves . Nevertheless, for posterity's sake Im pasting the sauce recipe here ..

I grilled them in my panini press and they turned out to be quite scrumptious ! They looks so so so delicious and your photos are so professional well done on this challenge. I grilled them in my panini press and they turned out to be quite scrumptious !

Hi Dips, that sounds really good. Never thought of making a satay sandi. Correct me if I am wrong, but I thought Thai satay had peanuts (peanut butter) in it. Or is it the dipping sauce? It is still early in the morning and I am groggy.